Online Learning Update

September 20, 2012

High School online learning classes are virtually overloaded

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

BY FRED GRIMM, Miami Herald

A decade ago, 2,550,201 state voters said so, approving a constitutional amendment limiting the number of students who can be jammed into a single class. No more than 25 kids can be assigned to a high school class offering a core course. Plainly, that’s the kind of teacher-to-student ratio that Floridians expect in their public school system. I’m guessing they might not be thrilled by a ratio of 275 to 1. Of course, the public wasn’t supposed to find out. The state’s over-packed classes are of the virtual kind, administered by distant, unseen teachers employed by K12, the for-profit contractor that provides online classes for public school districts in 43 Florida counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/15/3004668/online-classes-are-virtually-overloaded.html

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